Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns: A Retrospective of the Weird and Wonderful

Also, celebrating her birthday a few days ago is Bridget Riley. Among the world’s most significant living artists, at 91 the British artist continues to establish records and innovate today.

With a new, staggering auction record set in March 2022 (Gala, 1974 achieved £4,362,000 at Christie's Evening Sale) and a major exhibition just opened at the Yale Center for British Art, Riley's seven-decade career keeps evolving. Without a doubt, there is appetite for her work.

See below the latest acquisitions, a dazzling triumph of colours and shapes, Carnival and About Lilac .

Educated at Columbia and the Pratt Institute, Adams is a multidisciplinary artist known for his celebratory portrayal of everyday life as a black American (his Floater series, which depicts members of his family in the swimming pool, was recently used on a swimwear line for Vilebrequin). Often combining both abstract geometric and more realistic shapes, Adams’ work features in the permanent collections of MOMA and the Whitney, as well the acclaimed Dean Collection, a high-profile selection of African-American art collected by Alicia Keys and Kasseem ‘Swizz Beatz’ Dean.

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